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Daniella Gordon—a brilliant, cynical Mossad-CIA operative with Machiavellian instincts—By Deceit is a taut, darkly humorous psychological thriller. Set against the backdrop of escalating Israeli-Iranian tensions, Daniella is embedded in New York under deep cover, pretending to be a disillusioned ex-Mossad operative. After drawing the attention of Iranian handlers, she is "kidnapped" and taken through Rome, Istanbul, and finally to Tehran, where she undergoes psychological and ideological conditioning designed to turn her into a spy against Israel.
They think they’re recruiting her. In truth, she’s already ten steps ahead.
Daniella embeds with Iran’s elite training unit, manipulating both students and instructors while secretly feeding intelligence to the Mossad using a covert ATM-based comm system. From psychological warfare to identity-shifting deception, she maneuvers her way through internal purges, fake breakdowns, and betrayal setups—weaponizing even her own victimhood. The result: a complete infiltration of Iran’s deep-cover spy network, reversed and repurposed.
She returns to Israel a ghost with credentials. But her own agency isn’t clean. Daniella finds herself hunting a mole inside the Mossad, leveraging the same deception she used abroad to dismantle threats within. In the end, she isn’t just a spy. She’s a one-woman reckoning.
Genre: Thriller
They think they’re recruiting her. In truth, she’s already ten steps ahead.
Daniella embeds with Iran’s elite training unit, manipulating both students and instructors while secretly feeding intelligence to the Mossad using a covert ATM-based comm system. From psychological warfare to identity-shifting deception, she maneuvers her way through internal purges, fake breakdowns, and betrayal setups—weaponizing even her own victimhood. The result: a complete infiltration of Iran’s deep-cover spy network, reversed and repurposed.
She returns to Israel a ghost with credentials. But her own agency isn’t clean. Daniella finds herself hunting a mole inside the Mossad, leveraging the same deception she used abroad to dismantle threats within. In the end, she isn’t just a spy. She’s a one-woman reckoning.
Genre: Thriller
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